Big Fat Pig

Greetings from the Stye!

In the human world when someone is greedy and thinks only of how much they can have for themselves you sometimes call them a “big fat pig”. In my world that is a compliment, in your world…not so much.

Interesting however is my observation that in the human world there seems to be an emphasis on personal consumption. Every advertisement I see is encouraging people to shop more, eat more, spend more, drink more, ask for more, and on and on it goes. There does not seem to be equal time to encourage people to share more, or help other’s more. That is interesting from my perspective in the Stye. Sure, I live with pigs, and our ‘table manners’ may not be the best. But, we eat what is put before us and then go off to laze in some cool, mud hole. Would we eat more if it was offered? You bet we would! But we are content in what we have. That contentment is what I see missing in the lives of my human friends. They are afraid that: they won’t have enough to eat, they won’t have enough crops to sell, the price for corn will be too low to pay the bills, they won’t have [fill in the blank]. And when they live their lives in fear of presumed shortage then they don’t share with others.

Do you know what we call a pig that doesn’t share? A big fat Pig!!!

I heard somewhere that if every Christian in America gave 10% of their after-tax income to God’s work (what we call the Biblical tithe) there would be an extra $133 Billion (with a “B”)

each year to accomplish God’s work. Wow! Think what could be accomplished to make the world a better place. But I guess humans are just too caught up in their own patterns of consumption, fueled by fears of shortages.

Makes me wonder who the big fat pigs really are?

As always…your friend in the stye…

Stewie!